58 United Nations Workers Are Evacuated From Zaire

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October 23, 1996

GENEVA — Fifty-eight relief workers were evacuated Tuesday from eastern Zaire where they had been trapped by fighting between Zairian troops and ethnic Tutsi rebels. The top U.N. refugee official warned of a new humanitarian disaster if the fighting doesn't end. ''Unless all parties to this conflict step back, we are heading toward another humanitarian catastrophe,'' U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said Tuesday.